Picture-hanging device.



No. 822,048. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

L. HORINKO. PICTURE HANGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22. 1905.

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PICTURE-HANGING. DEvlcE.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

ratented May 29, 1906.

'Application iled August 22, 1905. Serial No. 275,222.

To all whom t may concern.'

vBe it known that I, LEONARD HoRINKo, a subject of the Czar of Russia,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Picture-Hanging Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a device especially adaptedfor hanging heavy pictures, whereby the pictures may be conveniently andexpeditiously lowered to the iioor without detaching them from theirsupports and quickly restored to their normal position on the wall orwhereby the pictures may be adjusted up or down on the wall and heldsecurely in adjusted position.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide a hanging device for apicture which will support it at the bottom as welll as at oppositesides of the back.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims. v

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis-specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a picture and the improved hangingdevice. Fig. 2 is avertical section through the picture and frame andthe molding from which the picture is suspended by the improved hangingdevice, the picture being shown in two positions. Fig. 3 is a rearelevation of apicture-frame, showing the application of the improvedhanging device. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the bottom support forthe picture-frame. Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section through thelower pulley-guide shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective viewof the moldinghook employed in connection with the hanging device.

A represents a picture-frame, and A the back thereof. Two loop-brackets10 and 11 are diagonally secured to the back A at the upper corners ofthe frame, as is shown in Fig. 3, and the bracket 10 in its loop-sectionis provided with a peripherally-grooved pulley 102, and the bracket 11is provided with a corresponding pulley 11a. A horizontal loop-bracket12 is located centrally of the back A of the frame near its lower edge,as is also shown in Fig. 3, and, as is particularly shown in Fig. 5, theloop-section 12a of the said bracket 12 is provided with twofrictionroll'ers 13 and 14, also preferably grooved', the said rollersbeing spaced a desired distance apart.

In connection withthe brackets 10, 1 1, and

12 a holder 15 is employed for the bottom portion of the frame, whichholder is substantially L-shaped in general contour, comprising avertical member 15a and a horizontal member 15b, the horizontal memberat its outer or forward end being preferably provided withupwardly-extending claws 16, although a flange may be substituted forsaid claws, if desired, and in the vertical member 15a upwardly-inclinedslots 17 are produced in its side portions, the inner ends of the saidslots being more or less enlarged.

In connection with the parts above mentioned two cords C are employed,and in connection with the cords two hooks B are used, adapted to fitover the cornice or molding 18, from which the picture is to hang. As.is illustrated in Fig. 6, each hook consists of a shank 19, the hookmember 2() being at the upper end of the shank, and the said hook memberat its free or lower end is provided with inwardly or forwardlyextending claws 21, so that when the hook member is iitted over themolding 18, as is shown in Fig. 2, the claws 21 will be made to enterthe molding by the weight of the picture, and will thus prevent the hookfrom accidentally dropping from the molding or moving thereon. The lowerportion of the shank 19 of the hook B is carried horizontally forwardand then upward, forming a pocket 22 open at the top, and in this pocketa peripherally-grooved friction-pulley 23 is mounted to turn.

Furthermore, if desired, a retaining device D may be provided for one orboth ends of the hanging-cords C. This device consists of a socketmember 24, adapted to be secured to the back of the picture by a screwor its equivalent, and the hook 27, supported by the socket member.

In hanging a picture with the appointments above mentioned one of thecords C is attached to the loop member 10b of the IOO IIO

sup orting device 15, the foot-section of the sai device having beenpassed in engagement with the bottom of the frame at its center the7back. The other cord C is attached to the loop-section 11b of thebracket 11, as is shown in Fig. 3, and is carried up over the pulley 23of the second hook B thence down over the pulley 11a in the bracket 11,and through the bracket 12 to an engagement with the friction-roller 14,andiinally to an engagement with the vertical member of the holdingdevice 1-5 through the medium of the other'set'of slots 17 therein. Theloose ends of the cords C are placed on the hook of the retaining deviceD to prevent their hanging below the frame.

Thus it will be observed the picture is held firmly in the position towhich it is adjusted and that by casting off the cords from the holdingdevice 15 the picture may bedrawn up or let down as far as desired onthe wall or carried clear to the floor, ifdesired, and by againfastening the cords C to the-holding device the'picture will be heldwhere placed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure'by Letters Patenti 1. In a picture-hanging device, thecombination with the picture-frame, of brackets adaptedfor attachment toopposite corner portions thereof, Aeach of said brackets being providedwith a friction roller, a third bracket adapted to b'e located on thepictureframe between the corner-brackets and below them,friction-rollers mounted in the said the vertical member 15a extendingupaty lower bracket, and a holder adapted to have bearing against theAunder portion of the picture-frame, all of the said parts beingarranged'to operate-in the manner described.

2. In a picture-hanging device, the combination with the picture-frameand moldinghooks, of opposing brackets attached to opposite corners ofthe picture-frame, each of said brackets being provided with a singlefriction-roller, a third bracket located between and below thecorner-brackets, the lower bracket being provided with twofrictionrollers, a supporting member consisting substantially ofL-shaped construction, the foot member whereof is adapted to engage withthe bottom ofthe picture-frame, the vertical member extending up at theback of said picture-frame, being provided with opposing slots in itsvertical edges, cords, one of which cords is attached to each of thecornerbrackets at one end, each of said cords being passed over themolding-hook and down, one cord over a pulley in each corner-bracket,from whence the two cords are passed each to an engagement with one ofthe pulleys in the lower bracket, the ends of the cords passing throughthe slots of the supporting member, and means for securing the ends ofthe cords.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnessesi VJ. FRED AOKER, e EVERARD B. MARSHALL@ "11j e

